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After a rise in foster care deaths, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has approved new regulations.
Indiana's new Management and Performance Hub will automate agencies' key performance indicators to try to improve outcomes on individual targets, such as infant mortality.
One Washington, D.C., neighborhood learned that launching a free public Wi-Fi network was not as easy as initially anticipated.
Drug tax laws, which exist in 20 states, offer a way for those states to collect money on illicit transactions.
Lawmakers and some business groups are pushing to lift the ban on new tolls along existing Interstate highways, a move that would provide additional revenue for road maintenance and repair. But a coalition of some of the nation’s biggest companies, including FedEx and McDonald’s, are fighting to keep the Interstates as toll-free as possible.
Assemblyman Craig Coughlin recently introduced a bill (A2949) that would create a new pool of potential jurors from volunteers.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin work Monday on a berm to allow workers to pump river water out of a 260-acre area of the Snohomish County mudslide, making it safe to continue the search for the missing.
A three-month house arrest for San Diego’s former Mayor Bob Filner is ending.
About 3 million more people enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program from October through February, an increase tied to the opening of the Obamacare insurance marketplaces.
It's not about new technology, policy or specific reforms. It's about how all of the players take ownership of a common concern.
Some state and local retirement systems have found a formula for stability.
Smart state leaders are recognizing that it costs a lot less to keep a struggling city, county or school district out of trouble in the first place.
Nearly 100 days after extended unemployment benefits expired, states are feeling the loss in federal money.
There's a new school for retirees who want to mold satisfying second careers, and can pay $60,000 to do so.
Jerry Brown signs into law a policy to increase ethics and tax agencies' audit power.
Lawmakers approve "warning shots" bill.
Keith Baugues, assistant commissioner in the Office of Air Quality in the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. The man in charge of cleaning up Indiana's air also said that "it seems silly to be talking about global warming at a time when we were having extremely cold unseasonable weather."
Two recent reports give early estimates for how many people were uninsured before signing up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. They offer different totals, but not because they disagree.
Pressed by Republican House members, directors of troubled state insurance exchanges said Thursday that they could fix continuing Obamacare glitches with grant money they have already received and would not ask for federal bailouts.
As deaths from heroin and other opiate drugs rise throughout New York, state officials are planning to equip police with an antidote to reverse the effects of overdoses.
In what may be the first legal test of the state’s medical marijuana law in the workplace, a 57-year-old Newark man with end stage renal failure is suing NJ Transit, his employer, for suspending him and sending him into rehab because he is a registered patient with New Jersey’s medical marijuana program.
Companies wouldn't reap the tax benefit until hitting the job-creation mark, even if it takes several years.
When it came to the biggest issue in the community she serves, casino gambling, Garcia deserves credit for holding her ground against it even though it is very popular at home. But when it came up for a vote this year, one that procedurally was more critical than Medicaid expansion, she didn't register a vote there either.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill Thursday that supporters say will assure unfettered practice of religion without government interference but that opponents worry could lead to state-sanctioned discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Four states with Republican-controlled legislatures may raise the minimum wage through ballot measures this year.
Concerned that a landslide there could "threaten life and property," the county considered buying up the properties and emptying much of the Steelhead Haven neighborhood, and then decided not to.
Gov. Deal orders changes to food stamp program as feds threaten to cut funding.
Some N.J. police to will begin to use a drug, Narcan, to combat heroin ODs.
The Supreme Court ruling on political spending could affect the Maryland governor's race.
“Until Plaintiffs have full disclosure of the product with which Texas will cause their death, they cannot fully develop a challenge to its process,” U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore said in her ruling.
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